Horror and Folk Tales
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- DirectorNeil JordanStarsSarah PattersonAngela LansburyDavid WarnerA teenage girl in a country manor falls asleep while reading a magazine, and has a disturbing dream involving wolves prowling the woods below her bedroom window.My choice. / Little Red Riding Hood retold by Freud
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroNick NolteJessica LangeA convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him.Bad wolf theme in a scene between Robert De Niro and Juliette Lewis. / Red Riding Hood
- DirectorMatthew BrightStarsReese WitherspoonKiefer SutherlandBokeem WoodbineA twisted take on "Little Red Riding Hood", with a teenage juvenile delinquent on the run from a social worker travelling to her grandmother's house and being hounded by a charming, but sadistic, serial killer and pedophile.Modern, twisted and psychopatic version of old tale. / (Little) Red Riding Hood
- DirectorDavid SladeStarsPatrick WilsonElliot PageSandra OhHayley's a smart, charming teenage girl. Jeff's a handsome, smooth fashion photographer. An Internet chat, a coffee shop meet-up, an impromptu fashion shoot back at Jeff's place. Jeff thinks it's his lucky night. He's in for a surprise.What would happen, if Red Riding Hood changed place with Bad Wolf and became tortuer? Here you are - fresh, modern view of the old story. / Little Red Riding Hood
- DirectorCatherine HardwickeStarsAmanda SeyfriedLukas HaasGary OldmanSet in a medieval village that is haunted by a werewolf, a young girl falls for an orphaned woodcutter, much to her family's displeasure.Rather dark fantasy than horror movie. Entertaining, but forgetable. / Little Red Riding Hood.
- DirectorJared CohnStarsEric BalfourBianca A. SantosRomeo MillerThe residents of a small town discover that something more sinister than killer wolves is lurking in the backwoods: first the wolves start turning up dead...then people.Crazy idea of mixing Little Red Hood with werewolf in one person. Unfortunately, film has terrible holes in the plot, lacks of logic and is played by amateurs. / Werewolf wearing Little Red Rotting Hood
- DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsAnton WalbrookMarius GoringMoira ShearerA young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.Melodrama with the Red Shoes with Swan Lake theme.
- DirectorDario ArgentoStarsJessica HarperStefania CasiniFlavio BucciAn American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.Dario Argento at his best. / The Red Shoes meet Edgar Allan Poe.
- DirectorYong-gyun KimStarsKim Hye-suKim Seong-suYeon-ah ParkA woman who finds a pair of pink high heels on a subway platform soon realizes that jealousy, greed, and death follow them wherever they go.One of my favourite horror movies ever. / The Red Shoes vs. Mother-daughter relationship drama
- DirectorAlexandre BustilloJulien MauryStarsChloé CoulloudFélix MoatiJérémy KaponeThe suggestion of a big treasure hidden somewhere inside Mrs Jessel's once renowned classical dance academy will become an irresistible lure to a fiendish trap for Lucie and her friends."Livid plays as (...) the Grimm kind with all the bloody bits left in." (full text: http://screenanarchy.com/2010/11/afm-2010-first-livid-promo-on-display.html; and http://screenanarchy.com/2012/05/bradford-2012-review-livid.html) / Little bit of the Red Shoes.
- DirectorDarren AronofskyStarsNatalie PortmanMila KunisVincent CasselNina is a talented but unstable ballerina on the verge of stardom. Pushed to the breaking point by her artistic director and a seductive rival, Nina's grip on reality slips, plunging her into a waking nightmare.Worth seeing, especially that Natalie Portman won Oscar for her performance. Look also for The Red Shoes (1948) / The Swan Lake.
- DirectorJuraj HerzStarsZdena StudenkováVlastimil HarapesVáclav VoskaIn this gothic rendition of the classic fairy tale, a merchant's youngest daughter is held prisoner by a mysterious winged beast.More classic tale, but with some blood... and feathers. My favorite adaptation. / Darker version of The Beauty and the Beast
- DirectorMichael CohnStarsSigourney WeaverSam NeillGil BellowsIn this dark take on the fairy tale, the growing hatred of a noblewoman, secretly a practitioner of the dark arts, for her stepdaughter, and the witch's horrifying attempts to kill her.Snow White for adults. / Snow White.
- DirectorDavid DeCoteauStarsShanley CaswellMaureen McCormickEric RobertsA troubled teenage girl finds herself in a web of lies and deceit when her stepmother attempts to murder her by sending her to a discipline camp.The only reason for me watching this movie to the end, was that I was ironing and have no pilot at my fingertips. / Snow White on Slasher Camp
- DirectorJulia LeighStarsEmily BrowningRachael BlakeEwen LeslieA haunting portrait of Lucy, a young university student drawn into a mysterious hidden world of unspoken desires.Worth watching mainly for beautiful Emily Browning. / Sleeping Beauty
- DirectorPil-sung YimStarsCheon Jeong-myeongEun Won-jaeShim Eun-kyungAfter meeting a mysterious girl on an dark stretch of road, a young salesman is invited to a beautiful house with bizarre secrets and no way to escape.Dark story about coming-of-age. / Hansel and Gretel
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsHaley Joel OsmentJude LawFrances O'ConnorA highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.Robot child who wanted to be a boy. / Pinocchio.
- DirectorTerry GilliamStarsJeff BridgesJennifer TillyJodelle FerlandBecause of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.Terryfing story about a girl left alone in house in the middle of grass sea, escaping into a fantasy world from her horror reality. / The Creepier Alice in Wonderland
- DirectorMark JonesStarsMax GrodénchikJohn DuceyKim Johnston UlrichThe wish of a young widow to see her police officer husband, killed on the line of duty, frees a demonic creature who wants to claim the soul of her baby.Got old, but still have some funny moments / Rumpelstiltskin
- DirectorMan-dae BongStarsAh-yung AhnGyu-ryun AhnYoo Da-inThe daughter of a plastic surgeon experiences strange events that seem to be connected her childhood.Cinderella story from Korea. / Cinderella
- DirectorPatrice DinhutStarsTinsel KoreyDhafer L'AbidineAndy ClemenceModern-day tourists find themselves lured into a deadly game in an alternate world where every fairy tale we were told at bedtime is real.Dark fantasy with evil creatures from Grimm stories. / Mixture of tales (Snow White, Red Riding Hood etc.).
- DirectorJan SvankmajerStarsVeronika ZilkováJan HartlJaroslava KretschmerováA childless couple passes off an anthropomorphous tree stump as their baby, but things get out of hand when the monstrosity comes to life and demands to be fed.Surrealistic one. / Otesánek (Czech folktale)
- DirectorBenh ZeitlinStarsQuvenzhané WallisDwight HenryLevy EasterlyFaced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.Magic Realism. Worth seeing.
- DirectorMatteo GarroneStarsSalma HayekVincent CasselToby JonesFrom the bitter quest of the Queen of Longtrellis, to two mysterious sisters who provoke the passion of a king, to the King of Highhills obsessed with a giant Flea, these tales are inspired by the fairytales by Giambattista Basile.Tale of Tales. / Il Pentamerone (Neapolitalian fairy tales)
- DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsIvana BaqueroAriadna GilSergi LópezIn the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.Not based on specific fairy tale, but main plot is a dark fantasy tale. / Roman mythology (faun creature)
- DirectorCarlos Enrique TaboadaStarsAna Patricia RojoElsa María GutiérrezLeonor LlausásA 10 year old girl convinces a lonely classmate that she is a witch, forcing the child to become her assistant. Though their games are initially rather naive, they gradually take a nasty and violent turn.Dark fantasy about (supposed to be innocent) children's world. / Witches
- DirectorJonathan LiebesmanStarsChaney KleyEmma Caulfield FordAntony BurrowsA vengeful spirit has taken the form of the Tooth Fairy to exact vengeance on the town that lynched her 150 years earlier. Her only opposition is the only child, now grown up, who has survived her before.
- DirectorChristian BiscegliaAscanio MalgariniStarsHarriet MacMasters-GreenSabrina Jolie PerezJarreth J. MerzA single mother moves into a new house with her daughter. Soon after the young girl has her first baby tooth fall off, she begins to recount that she is having nocturnal visits by a tooth fairy. It seems the house has a sinister history.
- DirectorJiri SádekMatej ChlupacekMichal SamirStarsAnna GeislerováKarolína LipowskáZdenek MuchaA story of Eliska and her daughter, starting a new life in a remote house, with the father away on business, as the mother claims. After the lie is exposed, their relationship begins to wither. At that time, the mythical Noonday Witch begins to materialize. She is coming closer and closer and the question is posed: is the danger real or is it all in the mother's head?Based on Karl Jaromír Erben ballad. Poludnitsa
(Polednice in Czech, see original title) is a mythical character common to the various Slavic countries of Eastern Europe. She can be referred to in English as "Lady Midday" or "Noon Witch". - DirectorKevin KölschDennis WidmyerStarsJason ClarkeAmy SeimetzJohn LithgowDr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, relocate from Boston to rural Maine with their two young children. The couple soon discover a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near their new home.
- DirectorRobert StrombergStarsAngelina JolieElle FanningSharlto CopleyA vengeful fairy is driven to curse an infant princess, only to discover that the child could be the one person who can restore peace to their troubled land.
- DirectorJoachim RønningStarsAngelina JolieElle FanningHarris DickinsonMaleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending nuptials, unexpected allies, and dark new forces at play.Sequel to Maleficient